The excess amounts on automatic cars is traditionally higher than the equivalent manual counterpart. This is down to the higher value attributed to automatic vehicles, you may say this is unfair but additional costs are incurred in making an automatic car. Like with any given additional extra to the base model of any car model, costs are added mainly just because they can!

Availability is very much reduced when it comes to automatic cars within fleets in most countries. This is different in the USA for example where driving practices and preferences over the years has made the vast majority of all fleets automatic vehicles. Anywhere else in the world though, book early as automatic transmission vehicles are highly on request and low in numbers. As they cost more and are not as “in demand” as base models, fleet managers do not buy many especially in the higher range vehicles like people carriers. That said in the premium and luxury categories of hire cars you there is more chance of getting an automatic or only automatic cars being available due to the prevalence of these transmissions in high end saloons.

Unfortunately price is a considerable difference due to lack of availability, cost of purchase and repair costs. Yes if there is a restriction in supply, demand there and additional costs incurred then of course the car hire companies will charge more for you to rent the car for the same period as the manual counterpart.

To make sure you get the best deal our of the criteria above you need a cost comparison engine specialising in only automatic car hire. From availability to price, you can counteract these with multiple suppliers and brokers competing for your business in a single search. We serve every location our partners serve worldwide so availability is unrivalled and with price sorted with just one click, automatic car hire saves you time and money.

Congratulations to Spain for their World Cup win last night over a Dutch team who had more in common with Chopper Harris than Johan Cruyff.

Here Automatic car hire tries to relate football with car hire (forgive us) with some extremely interesting facts about the industry in Espania.

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We at Automatic Car Hire are now offering the very latest in satellite navigation rental. Available through our car hire engine is the award winning Tom Tom GPS unit for navigation on unfamiliar roads in the UK, across Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil or The Middle East.

In inception it is only available to UK users of our services where for a low rental price we will deliver the latest Tom Tom GPS right to your door for your use for the dates you require. Need it last minute? Place an order by 4:00 pm Monday to Friday and we will guarantee next day delivery by 1:00 pm to your home, office or other place of choice as long as the Tom Tom GPS unit can be signed for. We use Royal Mail Special Delivery meaning the unit is tracked and delivered with exceptional service.

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Example Cars
Although example cars are given by our suppliers you could get a similar vehicle in the same category. The vehicle classification is made along passenger and luggage capacity which is very close along the range. You can appreciate that a supplier fleet although biased towards a single manufacturer will always have a wide range of manufacturers and models.

As a cost comparison engine we are tied to what our partners pass us through the XML feed we request and receive car hire searches. We are though adding further example cars in the car hire fleet along the following lines base on over 10 years in the car hire industry.
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Pick Up Locations
We pull every location served world wide from multiple suppliers including Auto Europe, Sixt, Holiday Autos, CarHire3000.com and Arguscarhire.com. Thus Automatic Car Hire gives you access to thousands of locations but there is an argument to lower this amount!
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Cost Comparison Car Hire
So why use a comparison engine to search and book your car or passenger van hire?

Automatic Car Hire asks why not?

We save you time by searching the leading car hire brokers and suppliers in the UK in just one search.

We bring you products you can’t get direct. Our zero excess product (an optional add on for you through the booking process) is the cheapest on the market and one of the most comprehensive.
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Fuel Policies

They Do Differ From Supplier to Supplier

Once upon a time car rental was a similar package no matter where you picked it up. The fuel tank was full, you had an insurance excess on CDW / Theft and you had to return the vehilce full with fuel. If you didn’t you were charged a premium cost for the fact the rental company had to fill it up.

Well then for Car Hire Spain it all got very competitive, the cost of holidays reduced and a handful of rental companies thought of a great way of getting the edge over the big boys. Thus was born the concept of giving zero excess on insurance, charging the customer for the fuel in the car and asking them to return it empty.

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September Deals

All Brokers Discounting For The End of Summer

As we head in September you can be sure of some large discounts from all car hire brokers featured on Automatic Car Hire as they look to make the most of the end of Summer 2008.

With temperatures across Europe still above average with generous amounts of sun now must be the time to pack a suitcase and escape abroad?

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Our relationship with car hire brokers

Automatic Car Hire search multiple brokers with just one click – industry leaders such as Holiday Autos, Carhire3000, Auto Europe and Arguscarhire.com allow us to connect with their systems through an XML feed to give you the same availability and value as their direct websites.

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Although the cost of a barrel of oil recently dropped ending months of escalating prices, the cost of fuel is still high and maybe putting people off driving long distances.

We we at Automatic Car Hire hope to give you a few tips to save some money and allow you to do the thing rental cars were designed for – drive!

Petrol, Diesel or Hybrid…

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